This allows easier use of the change vnc password monitor command from
management scripts, without having to implement expect(1)-like behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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qcow2 writes a cluster reference count on every cluster update. This causes
performance to crater when using anything but cache=writeback. This is most
noticeable when using savevm. Right now, qcow2 isn't a reliable format
regardless of the type of cache your using because metadata is not updated in
the correct order. Considering this, I think it's somewhat reasonable to use
writeback caching by default with qcow2 files.
It at least avoids the massive performance regression for users until we sort
out the issues in qcow2.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Virtio-blk is a paravirtual block device based on VirtIO. It can be used by
specifying the if=virtio parameter to the -drive parameter.
When using -enable-kvm, it can achieve very good performance compared to IDE or
SCSI.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Minor fixes of spelling and grammar in comments and documentation
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
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This patch changes the cache= option to accept none, writeback, or writethough
to control the host page cache behavior. By default, writethrough caching is
now used which internally is implemented by using O_DSYNC to open the disk
images. When using -snapshot, writeback is used by default since data integrity
it not at all an issue.
cache=none has the same behavior as cache=off previously. The later syntax is
still supported by now deprecated. I also cleaned up the O_DIRECT
implementation to avoid many of the #ifdefs.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Instead of having (current)three command line switches -std-vga,
-cirrusvga and -vmwarevga, provide one -vga switch which takes
an argument, so that:
qemu -std-vga becomes qemu -vga std
qemu -cirrusvga becomes qemu -vga cirrus
qemu -vmwarevga becomes qemu -vga vmware
Update documentation accordingly.
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Instead of having separate option for each card and driver use
--audio-drv-list and --audio-card-list options.
Under Linux it allows to set the default(first probed) driver
to something other than OSS.
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Hopefully someday will be merged with cs4231.c (SPARC version)
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This patch allows the qemu backend debugger to single step an
instruction without running the hardware interrupts.
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It is possible for a guest with a raw formatted disk image to write a
header to that disk image describing another format (such as qcow2).
Stopping and subsequent restart of the guest will cause qemu to detect
that format, and could allow the guest to read any host file if qemu is
sufficiently privileged (typical in virt environments).
The patch defaults to existing behaviour (probing based on file contents),
so it still requires the mgmt app (e.g. libvirt xml) to pass a new
"format=raw" parameter for raw disk images.
Originally noted by Avi Kivity, patch from Chris Wright.
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Applied %s/^\([^I ]*\)^I/\1 /g on e1000.c and added e1000 to help message.
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Implement chr_close callback for "stdio" so that it can be closed and reopened.
Free chr devices after they're closed.
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